Posts with the ‘Leaders of Character’ tag
Leadership is fun – right up until you have to make those first tough decisions. Everyone goes through this transition from eager new leader ready to change the world, to the realization that the decisions involved in leading are a lot harder than they look from the outside.
The victim mentality is everywhere. In business, in non-profits, in schools, and in homes that mentality destroys any opportunity for team and individual success. When a leader embraces the victim mentality, the best case scenario is the leader will be marginalized and ignored. The worst case scenario is the rest of the team become victims […]
You can be an unethical rule follower. All organizations have rules and regulations people must follow. But many organizations fail to consider that we can all be unethical rule followers. Just because we do not break the law or a corporate regulation does not make us a person of Integrity.
If you want an easy life, then ignore this post. Character is not that complicated a subject to discuss. But, character is hard to do. That is why so few of today’s leaders do the hard work required to exercise character.
There is a leadership crisis in our culture. Politics. Business. Sports. Families. Wherever you turn the results of this crisis are evident. Some of the symptoms are political stalemate, lack of trust, dysfunctional teams, cheating in athletics or broken homes. There are a lot of approaches to fixing these symptoms. But the problem is we […]
Don’t play the blame game. Problem finders are everywhere. It does not take a PhD, a MBA or even a GED to be a good problem finder. It takes no skill or advanced education to point fingers. Problem finders usually wallow at the lower levels in organizations and rarely make it past middle management.
Untrustworthy. Poor communication. Poor listening. Micromanaging. Selfishness. Uncaring. Demeaning. Many people believe if you fix these things you will fix a bad leader. But these are just the signs of a bad leader. They don’t identify the root cause of bad leadership.
Positivity or negativity? It boils down to making a choice. Choosing negativity limits who will follow us. The attitudes we display go a long way in determining what type of leader we are and how many followers we have. Do we choose our attitudes, or do we let our circumstances or other people choose them […]
Do we choose to do what needs to be done, or just what we want to do? Do we choose to follow through on all our commitments or flake out? Do we choose to give our best in all areas of our jobs, or just the part we really enjoy? Being unreliable limits our ability to […]
Selflessness or selfishness. We all make daily choices that prove we are selfish or selfless. Selfishness limits our ability to lead and have truly committed followers. If you really want to understand what type of character someone has, look at the choices they make on a habitual basis. When faced with choosing what THEY want versus […]
